In the 'Grey Battalion': Launceston General Hospital Nurses on Active Service in World War I

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty Harris
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Hospital Nurses ◽  
World War ◽  
Active Service

scholarly journals Francis Arthur Freeth, 2 January 1884 - 15 July 1970

1976 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 104-118
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
World War ◽  
Long Line ◽  
The Family ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Tradition

Francis Arthur Freeth died on 15 July 1970 in his eighty-seventh year, having been a Fellow of the Royal Society for 45 years. He was born on 2 January 1884 in Birkenhead and, as he was fond of telling, ‘The Irish doctor who was assisting at my birth and celebrating the New Year—to put it mildly—held me out of the window on the frosty night for luck’. Freeth’s father was a well-known Liverpool master mariner with a Commission in the Royal Naval Reserve who took his son five times across the Atlantic before he was 6 years old. There was a strong military tradition in the family; his great-grandfather was a Peninsular War veteran, General Sir James Freeth, who became Quartermaster General from 1851 to 1854; three of his sons became Major-Generals, including F. A. Freeth’s grandfather. Freeth, who sometimes liked to say that he ‘was descended from a long line of Major-Generals’, was in the Territorial Army, was mobilized on 4 August 1914 and remained on active service until summoned home in March 1915 to solve some grave problems in the supply of munitions. In the years after World War I Freeth was well pleased to be known as Major Freeth, only becoming known as Doctor Freeth 20 years later. To complete the military story, Freeth’s son became a naval officer and it was always his cherished wish that he would live to see his grandson commissioned. On his mother’s side his descent was from a Lancashire family called Hinde which died out at the beginning of this century.

Letterman General Hospital during World War I

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-121
Author(s):  
Barbara Berglund Sokolov ◽  
John Bertland
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Major Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Department ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Government

When the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, the Army Medical Department operated only four general hospitals and was in many ways unprepared for the scale and nature of the conflict ahead. This article examines the war's impact on Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, which was the largest of the four hospitals before the war. In addition to tripling in capacity, Letterman incorporated many of the Medical Department's new services, the most significant concerning orthopedics and physical rehabilitation. The army's embrace of the ethic of rehabilitation was part of a major change in how the government managed care and compensation for those wounded in war—a change that marked a shift, continuing to this day, in how both state and society understand the relationship between disability and citizenship. After the war, Letterman incorporated new requirements for treating veterans in support of the country's evolving veterans’ health care system, which at times was unable to provide the full level of care the government had pledged and that many veterans had come to expect.

Wadsworth, Edward Alexander (1889–1949)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kitty Hudson
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
Wyndham Lewis ◽  
World War ◽  
Abstract Group ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Individual Style

Edward Wadsworth played an important role alongside Wyndham Lewis in the short-lived avant-garde movement of Vorticism in 1913–1914. He continued to work in the abstracted, geometric style associated with the movement throughout World War I, though very little work of this period remains other than his woodcuts. After returning to England from active service in 1917, Wadsworth worked on the camouflage of shipping, known as "dazzle painting," and produced a large canvas entitled Dazzle Ships in Drydock at Liverpool (1919). The 1920s saw Wadsworth turn to the theme for which he is best known: the precise and realistic harbor scenes and maritime still lifes, largely painted in tempera. This highly individual style was often dubbed "surrealist" though Wadsworth did not encourage this association. His compositions became progressively more abstract in the early 1930s and, in 1933, Wadsworth joined the English abstract group "Unit One"; however, the following year he abruptly returned to his familiar marine paintings. Large-scale commissions included paintings for the smoke rooms of the Cunard ship Queen Mary and, during the 1939–1945 war, he produced advertising images for ICI. After 1945 his work tended once again towards the abstract, though always maintaining a link with earlier natural motifs and geometric forms.

Through the prism of Spain. Socio-economic causes of different outcomes of Russian and Spanish civil wars

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
I. Rozinskiy ◽  
N. Rozinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Economic Well Being

The article examines the socio-economic causes of the outcome of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1936), which, as opposed to the Russian Civil War, resulted in the victory of the “Whites”. Choice of Spain as the object of comparison with Russia is justified not only by similarity of civil wars occurred in the two countries in the XX century, but also by a large number of common features in their history. Based on statistical data on the changes in economic well-being of different strata of Spanish population during several decades before the civil war, the authors formulate the hypothesis according to which the increase of real incomes of Spaniards engaged in agriculture is “responsible” for their conservative political sympathies. As a result, contrary to the situation in Russia, where the peasantry did not support the Whites, in Spain the peasants’ position predetermined the outcome of the confrontation resulting in the victory of the Spanish analogue of the Whites. According to the authors, the possibility of stable increase of Spanish peasants’ incomes was caused by the nation’s non-involvement in World War I and also by more limited, compared to Russia and some other countries, spending on creation of heavy (primarily military-related) industry in Spain.

‘Grey Dawn’ in the British Pacific: Race, Security and Colonial Sovereignty on the Eve of World War I

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Tumblin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
World War ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Cooperative Security ◽  
Strategic Defense ◽  
Racial Discourses ◽  
The Way

This article examines the way a group of colonies on the far reaches of British power – Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India, dealt with the imperatives of their own security in the early twentieth century. Each of these evolved into Dominion status and then to sovereign statehood (India lastly and most thoroughly) over the first half of the twentieth century, and their sovereignties evolved amidst a number of related and often countervailing problems of self-defence and cooperative security strategy within the British Empire. The article examines how security – the abstracted political goods of military force – worked alongside race in the greater Pacific to build colonial sovereignties before the First World War. Its first section examines the internal-domestic dimension of sovereignty and its need to secure territory through the issue of imperial naval subsidies. A number of colonies paid subsidies to Britain to support the Royal Navy and thus to contribute in financial terms to their strategic defense. These subsidies provoked increasing opposition after the turn of the twentieth century, and the article exlpores why colonial actors of various types thought financial subsidies threatened their sovereignties in important ways. The second section of the article examines the external-diplomatic dimension of sovereignty by looking at the way colonial actors responded to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. I argue that colonial actors deployed security as a logic that allowed them to pursue their own bids for sovereignty and autonomy, leverage racial discourses that shaped state-building projects, and ultimately to attempt to nudge the focus of the British Empire's grand strategy away from Europe and into Asia.

The Anarchist Press in Egypt before World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Education ◽  
World War I ◽  
State Power ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War

This chapter traces the development of the radical secular press in Egypt from its first brief emergence in the 1870s until the outbreak of World War I. First active in the 1860s, the anarchist movement gradually expanded its membership and influence over subsequent decades to articulate a general social emancipation and syndicalism for all workers in the country. In the decade and a half before 1914, its press collectively propagated a critique of state power and capitalism, called for social justice and the organisation of labour, and promoted the values of science and public education in both a local context and as part of an international movement. In seeking to promote a programme at odds with both nationalism and colonial rule, it incurred the hostility of the authorities in addition to facing the practical problems of managing and financing an oppositional newspaper.

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